Privacy Policy

Introduction

1.       Birketts LLP (“Birketts”) is the sponsor and data controller in respect of the responses to this client feedback survey.  Birketts wish to protect the privacy of visitors to this part of the CustomServe website, which is managed by Acuigen Ltd (Acuigen). www.customserve.com is a domain used by Acuigen to facilitate the project.

2.       Acuigen is the data controller in respect of technical data collected by the use of the CustomServe website, such as (but not limited to) your IP address and browser type, together with the date, time and duration of your visit when you visit the website. For fuller information about Acuigen’s processing of data which it is  data controller, please see Acuigen’s full privacy policy available at https://www.acuigen.com/en-gb/Legal/Privacy-and-Cookies.

3.       It is the relevant data controller that determines the purposes and means of processing of your personal data. Where Birketts is the data controller, Acuigen will only process your personal data on the documented instructions of Birketts.

4.       This document gives a summary of how Birketts and Acuigen manage privacy with respect to this project.  If you have further questions regarding the processing of your personal data contained in your response to the feedback survey, please see Birketts’ full Privacy Policy available at https://www.birketts.co.uk/privacy-policy (the Birketts Privacy Policy).  This policy should be read in conjunction with the Birketts Privacy Policy.

5.       This privacy policy may be changed at any time without giving you notice, so please check it each time you visit this website.

6.       Acuigen’s use of cookies is explained here https://www.acuigen.com/en-gb/Legal/Privacy-and-Cookies.

7.       To use this website you must be 18 years of age or more.  If you are under the age of 18, please do not use this website.

8.       Acuigen is registered under the UK Data Protection Act 2018 with the UK Information Commissioner and works to the standards set by the Market Research Society Code of Conduct.

Information we collect from you during the survey

9.       As you complete a questionnaire, you will be told the purpose of the information being collected, and Birketts may use your content provided for the purposes that have been described in the questionnaire. 

10.    The survey introduction will notify you if your feedback is attributable or non-attributable.  If attributable your information will be passed by Acuigen to Birketts associated to your details.  If non-attributable, your feedback will not be associated with you, but will be passed back to Birketts anonymously for research and statistical purposes.

11.    Your personal data is processed by Acuigen based on you giving explicit consent to that processing to the controller; Acuigen will provide the means by which you give your consent (for example, by using appropriate forms, fields or tick boxes).

12.    Participation is optional; you have a right to withdraw your consent to the on-going processing of your personal information as part of this project and you may request that information you have provided as part of the survey be removed and destroyed by contacting Birketts at data@birketts.co.uk

13.    Birketts will not disclose the information it holds about you as data controller, other than as described in the Birketts Privacy Policy.

14.    If you would like a copy of the information that Birketts holds about you as data controller, please contact Birketts at data@birketts.co.uk

15.    If you believe that any information that Birketts holds as data controller is incorrect or incomplete, please contact Birketts at data@birketts.co.uk

16.    Birketts will keep your personal data in accordance with the retention processes in the Birketts Privacy Policy.   At the end of Acuigen’s involvement in this client feedback project Acuigen will be instructed to delete the data it holds from its operational networks.

Security of Information  

17.    Acuigen record your IP address and browser type, together with the date, time and duration of your visit when you visit the website in order to facilitate security.  Acuigen is the data controller for this purpose.

18.    Acuigen and Birketts will protect the personal data which you provide to Acuigen by taking appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard it from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification or unlawful destruction or accidental loss. 

19.    All Acuigen employees and any third parties it engages to process your personal data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your data.

20.    When you give Acuigen personal data, Acuigen may send, receive, store and/or process the data electronically to and from servers anywhere in the world, including countries outside the European Economic Area.  More information about the way in which Birketts transfers data overseas is contained in its Privacy Policy referred to above.

Supervisory Authority

21.    The supervisory authority for privacy and data protection is the Information Commissioners Office.  You also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office.  For more details please visit https://ico.org.uk/. 

Questions or Comments

22.    If you require further information, or would like to access or seek to correct any of your personal information, have a complaint about a breach of privacy or have any questions or comments please contact the appropriate Data Protection Officer by e-mail.  The appropriate contact for queries relating to the information you provide as part of the survey is Birketts. For queries about the technical information held in relation to the use of the CustomServe website, please contact Acuigen.

 

Birketts

Acuigen

Address for mail

Director of Risk and Compliance

Birketts LLP

Providence House

141-145 Princes Street

Ipswich

IP1 1QJ

Data Protection Officer

Acuigen Ltd

Cranfield Innovation Centre

University Way

Cranfield

Beds

MK43 0BT

Email

data@birketts.co.uk

data.protection@acuigen.com

Phone

0808 169 4320

01234 759800

Websites

www.birketts.co.uk

www.acuigen.com

www.customserve.com

 

 

Updated:  9th March 2022